LFA Library: New Materials (October - November 2017)

*Books marked with an asterisk are related to the current HOS Symposium Topic.

Overdrive eBooks (Red= Fiction; Black= Non-Fiction) Title Author

American Street Ibi Zoboi (Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction)

*Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst Robert M. Sopolsky

*Feeling Beauty: The Neuroscience of Aesthetic Experience G. Gabrielle Starr

The Future is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia Masha Gessen (Winner of the National Book Award for Non Fiction)

The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War H.W. Brands

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari

History of Wolves: A Novel Emily Fridlund (Finalist for the Man Booker Prize)

Little & Lion Brandy Colbert

Miss Burma Charmaine Craig *The River of Consciousness Oliver Sacks

Swing Time Zadie Smith (Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction; Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize)

We Will Not Be Silent: The White Rose Student Resistance Movement That Defied Adolf Hitler Russell Freedman (Winner of an American Library Association Informational Book Honor)

The Windfall Diksha Basu

You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me: A Memoir Sherman Alexie

Print Collection

(Red= Fiction; Black= Non-Fiction) Title Author

The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation v.2: The Kingdom on the Waves M.T. Anderson (Winner of the American Library Association’s Award for Best Book for Young Adults; Sequel to the National Book Award Winner, The Pox Party)

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Neil deGrasse Tyson

Beowulf (A Graphic Novel) Santiago Garcia

Bix: The Definitive Biography of a Jazz Legend Jean Pierre Lion

The Broken Earth Trilogy Book 1: The Fifth Season N.K. Jemisin (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2016) The Broken Earth Trilogy Book 2: The Obelisk Gate N.K. Jemisin (Winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel 2017)

The Broken Earth Trilogy Book 3: The Stone Sky N.K. Jemisin

Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien (Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize)

Dunbar (William Shakespeare’s King Lear Retold) Edward St. Aubyn

Going into Town: A Love Letter to New York (A Graphic Novel) Roz Chast

House of Lords and Commons: Poems Ishion Hutchinson (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry)

How to Read Nancy: The Elements of Comics in Three Easy Panels Paul Karasik & Mark Newgarden

Jane (A Graphic Novel) Aline McKenna

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story Douglas Preston

My Favorite Thing is Monsters (A Graphic Novel) Emil Ferris

Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data Charles Wheelan

Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection MacLean Collection & Honolulu Academy of Arts Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine Anne Applebaum

Selection Day: A Novel Aravino Adiga

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan

*Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect Matthew D. Lieberman

The Story of French Jean-Benoit Nadeau

The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words (1000 BC – 1492 AD) Simon Schama

The Story of Spanish Jean-Benoit Nadeau

Transgender History: The Roots of Today’s Revolution (Revised Edition) Susan Stryker

You & a Bike & a Road (A Graphic Novel) Eleanor Davis

DVDs

(Red= Feature Films; Black = Documentary Films) Title

The Crash Reel (Documentary starring Kevin Pierce & Shaun White. Winner of the Cinema Eye Award, Dallas International Film Festival Audience Award, and SXSW Film Festival Audience Award)

The Eagle Huntress (Winner of the Audience Award at the Middleburg Mill Valley Film Festivals, and Best Documentary Feature at the Hamptons International Film Festival)

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

The Hollow Crown: The War of the Roses (Henry VI: Part 1; Henry VI: Part 2; Richard III (BBC Great Performances series starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Richard III)

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (Sequel to An Inconvenient Truth starring former Vice-President Al Gore)

Inside Out (Academy Award for Best Animated Feature; Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature)

The Vietnam War (A Ken Burns & Lynn Novick Film-- aired on PBS Television as a 10-part Documentary Series)

Shutter Island

Your Name (Kimi no na wa) (Winner of the Best Animated Feature Award by the Los Angeles Film Critics; Winner of the Japan Academy Prize for Screenplay of the Year)

Videogames

Title

Crash Bandicoot N-Sane Trilogy (PS4)

FIFA18 (XBOX ONE)

Final Fantasy XII: The Zodiac Age (PS4)

Just Dance 2018 (Wii)

Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite (PS4)

Shadow of War (XBOX ONE)